The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

aferro County Invents a Car
Coupler.
GEORGIA.
Several melon growers of Boston report
young melons on their vines.
The Governor signed warrant Thursday
for $50, 7S2 &c for the public schools Of
Georgia
Benjamin F. Carter, of Canton, has been
appointed by Judge Newman to be United
States Commissioner.
The estate of the late DR.. A. R. Taylor, of
Hawkinsville, has received the sum of SS,0 900
as the amount of his insurance policies.
Bryan county Superior Court has been in
session this week. But little business was
transacted and the session only lasted two
days.
One day last week the wholesale house of
A. Gibian & Co., of Macon, ordered one bill
of tobacco amounting to $4,000 This to-
bacco is manufactured in North Carolina
and Virginia.
The new building of the Augusta Ex-
change is to be formally opened on Monday
1t is a very handsome building, at the cor
ner of Reynolds and jackson streets The
Exchange has l02 members.
The establishment of a district high school
at Perry is among the probabilities. 1t will
be under the supervision and patronage of
the conference Of the Macon district of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
A lady in Atlanta sent a dress to wash
which contained $lS5 in pocket. Her
husband won't in search of the washerwom-
an. He found her just in time to rescue
the greenbacks from q watery grave.
Mrs A. P Norwood, near Hogansville.
was found dead in her bed day or two ago,
having passed away without the knowledge
of any one during the night. 1t is supposed
that disease of the heart was the cause
On Aug IS, 1886, the wife of j. W. Null
lis, who lives six miles east of town, was the
subject of an assault with intent to rape by
a negro named Aaron Mcleod, one of Mr.
Mullis' farm hands. Mcleod was arrested
in Macon Wednesday.
Last Saturday Mrs. Annie Killen, of Per-
ry, ripped open an old pin cushion, and
from within it she took 392 needles The
cushion had been in use four or five years,
and it seems that the needles had been re-
morselessly ''taken in"
Judge John H. Houses, of Perry, received
last week from a negro preacher at Fort
Valley a letter which bore the following
comprehensive address: ordinary of the
cote House in Perry GA hcens Retune the
ordinary j H Houser Ca"
A new fire company is on the tapis at
Rome It's members are to be boys from 8
or 10 to 13 or IA years of age, and there are
already about twenty applicants for mem
bership. The boys have not yet decided on
a name for the company.
Washing and ironing is an important in
dustry in Dalton, and is the principal means
of support for perhaps one-half the colored
families Of the city. Good washers get all
all the work they can do, at remunerative
prices, and many women support large fam
lilies in this way
There was Jail delivery at Morgan on
last Sunday night. The jailer left the pris-
oners in the outer court of the jail during
the night, and three of them pried open the
bars and effected their escape. One of the
escaped criminals was confined under 6
charge of murder.
There are strong indications at present
that there will be more trouble at Atlanta
between John H. James, the banker, anc
the Central Bank Block Association. 1t /,
said that the rents of the Central Banl
Block Association have fallen off so mucf
that the stockholders will not get dividend
In July.
There was quite a lively row between two
rival colored schools at Boston few day:
ago. Both teachers taught in the same
building, as it was the public house. The
rivalry was so great that the building be
came too small for both teachers. Threats
were made and both teachers swore ou
warrants.
Within the last fifty days $3.50, 900 in casl
has been put into various enterprises in Ma
con. The banking and railroad enterprises
are the largest interests that are represented
in this amount, but there were also othel
enterprises. The new street railway exten
sions and the market-house are separate in
veStments, and by adding them the sun
swells up to a cool million This is surely
very Indicative of a very satisfactory stat
of affairs.
Several youthful colored 'sports" wer
arrested at Boston Thursday charged will
malicious mischief. This gang is in tn
habit of hiding and throwing stones a
passers by. They charged the colored con
gregation Wednesday night as they wer
dispensing. One of the gang was caught
and he confessed II is probable that Hi
Honor the Mayor will give them a job o
throwing stonesn ON the street for the mex
twenty days.
The negro woman living out near the oil
fair grounds at Americas who took poiso
by mistake a few days ago died in tn
greatest agony from the effects of the med
cine She wanted to take dose of sulphur
and having none in the house, sent to
neighbours for it, and received by mistak
something resembling sulphur, of which sh
took three or four doses. In few minute
she was thrown into commissions, and die
in horrible agony few days afterward.
Sumpter Republican: Last Saturda
morning Miss Joe Hey discovered littl
5-year-old negro girl standing i'm front of
negro cabin, on her brothers place, with he
clothes in big blaze. Miss Hey, regardles
of her own safety, gathered the little girl IL
in her arms, ran into the cabin and smotf
cred the flames out with n quilt. The CIR
Sarah, was a daughter of Fletcher and Har
nah Abrams, tenants on the Hey place TIL
child died a few hours after the heroic effoI
to save her life.
Mary Stewart, a colored woman of Talia
ferro county, Is invented a car coupler
She was the first servant born TO the Hon
Alexander Fl. Stephens and has lived all he
life in TeliaferIo county. Her invention
simple and almost perfect. She said tn
idea came to her like dream and she mad
tho model according TO her vision. Sh
used for material in making the model oil
oyster cups. 1t is believed that her Idle
carried out will make her fortune. She
the only colored woman in the world said {
be making valuable invention.
Ed Crittenden, an aged and blind negro
was found by the police of Americas Thurs
day morning lying in ditch of water unde
the railroad track near the city limits. A!
ter he, had been fshed out, he told Chic
Lingo that he had been in MontezIma n
Gently, and was on his way back to Alban
where he lived. He had been brought q
far as Americas on the train by relativ